Organizers

Organizing committee

• Sarah J. Adams (PhD candidate of Dutch Literature, Ghent University)
• Wendy-Lou Sutherland (Associate Prof. of German Language and Literature, New College of Florida)
• Cornelis van der Haven (Prof. of Dutch Literature, Ghent University)
• Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Prof. of Theater Studies, Free University of Brussels and RITCS)
• GEMS (Group for Early Modern Studies, Ghent University),  Thalia (Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance), CEL19 (Centre for the Study of 19th-Century Literature, Ghent University), and CMSI (Cultural Memory Studies Initiative, Ghent University)

Scientific commitee

• Inge Arteel (Lecturer of German Literature, Free University of Brussels)
• Inge Brinkman (Prof. of African Language and Cultures, Ghent University)
• Bambi Ceuppens (Dr. of Social Anthropology, AfricaMuseum and KASK)
• Stef Craps (Prof. of English Literature, Ghent University)
• Catherine Gilbert (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University)
• Evelien Jonckheere (Postdoctoral researcher of Theater Studies, University of Antwerp)
• Michiel van Kempen (Prof. of Dutch-Caribbean Culture and Literature, University of Amsterdam)
• Johan Verberckmoes (Prof. of Early Modern History, Catholic University of Leuven)
• Omar Jabary Salamanca (Postdoctoral researcher of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University)

With the financial support of

• FWO (Research Foundation Flanders)
• CWO (Research Fund of the Faculty of Arts and Philosphy, Ghent University)
• Department of Literary Studies (Ghent University)